Showing posts with label 1700s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1700s. Show all posts
December 24, 2024

Are You Afraid of Raw Head and Bloody Bones?

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"Don't Talk! Go to Sleep! Eyes shet an' don't you peep! Keep still, or he jes moans: 'Raw Head an' Bloody Bones!...
November 12, 2022

Clarissa Dillon on Thinking Outside the Book

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  I came across this webinar by Clarissa Dillon on researching beyond using recipes. Recipes do not give the full picture of prevalence, wh...
November 3, 2020

What is Election Cake? | Colonial Recipe | Amelia Simmons, 1796

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Many cookbooks include a recipe for Election Cake. What is it? The hallmark of an election cake recipe is the enormous batch size. Some of t...
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September 23, 2020

18th Century Wash-Balls: Scented Body Soap | How To

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Bathing in colonial times evokes images of dirty rags and lard soap. In reality is there were many scented, colored, and augmented soaps ...
September 9, 2020

How to Render Lard and Tallow for Cooking, Soap Making and Cosmetics

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In early America, grease pots were a ubiquitous part of a kitchen. Grease was collected during cooking and butchering and was later rendered...
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December 22, 2019

Civil War Fruit Cake Recipe -150+ Years Old!

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Fruitcake. I'm young enough to have never encountered a fruitcake in the wild. Its reputation had been cemented before I was a chil...
September 25, 2019

Colonial Era Cold Remedy That Actually Works: 18th Century Elderberry Syrup

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It's the middle of September in 1774, your mother is sick and has sent you out to collect elderberries to make syrup. You know just...
August 27, 2019

18th Century Lemon Cheese Recipe from The Cookbook of Unknown Ladies

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I was excited to try this recipe. I have yet to see anyone else attempt it and it is from a handwritten recipe book in Westminster City ...
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August 20, 2019

Amelia Simmons' 18th Century Pound Cake Recipe

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We had a little teaser of fall over the last few days but that light breeze has been replaced with an Indian monsoon season. Again. I h...
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May 2, 2019

Easy, DIY Cottage Cheese Tutorial, WWI Meat Substitute Recipe

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This basic cottage cheese or farm cheese recipe has been used for centuries. Leftover buttermilk, lemon juice, or vinegar can be used ...
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March 21, 2018

Civil War Era Snow Cream Recipe

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I'm enjoying my snow day off after that busy weekend at Military Through the Ages . This is one of those recipes that sounds like...
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January 1, 2017

The Pesky Colonial "New Year"

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William Hogarth, 1755 There's something funny about Colonial dates. You'll see someone in a church record born on the 10th, bu...
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